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What a great waste of time, I hear readers mutter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

They grads are also primed to boo any speakers who so much as mutter the words “artificial intelligence.”

From Slate ● May 20, 2026

The locals in their working-class part of the city of Sahiwal mutter that Zeba is living under a curse after her previous suitors died in mysterious circumstances.

From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026

When Musk makes the same prediction, analysts roll their eyes and mutter about missed timelines.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 2026

“Yes, thank you,” I mutter as I step forward into the chamber of doom.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

He mutters and trails off when he speaks publicly, making him hard to quote in full.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

The man and woman walk by me as the man mutters, “You people are crazy” and other words people don’t usually say on the streets of Pella.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2025

“He better be working out because I’m just horrified about that fight — just horrified,” Kind mutters while shaking his head and picking at a small plate of bananas and peanut butter.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025

Some are goofily anachronistic, as when Johnson mutters a few times about pulling himself up by his bootstraps like everyone else.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2024

“Thanks for that helpful and reassuring wisdom, Dad,” she mutters, shoving her Spanish vocab list deep into her bag.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

She blinked, paused, and then muttered: “In the winter.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Metallica’s always been more existential than topical, but haven’t we all scrolled our feeds recently and muttered - “Darkness imprisoning me / All that I see, absolute horror.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Then, turning to me, she muttered, “Not according to the internet this week. I’m joking!”

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

As hard as she tried to paint Mamdani’s proposals as unreasonable, she often muttered “right” under her breath as he answered her questions, serving to unintentionally bolster his talking points.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2025

“Well, not exactly lied,” Nim muttered, and rubbed tears on Selkie’s warm fur, “but she’s not a hero. I thought I knew who Alex Rover was…he was my friend and now he’s gone!”

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Teachers scooped up the stragglers and ushered them into the shelter's entrance, while the cleaner scanned the playground, muttering as she checked that no one had been left behind.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Then we can make more Oppenheimer comparisons when he winds up pacing the frontiers, wringing his hands and muttering the Bhagavad Gita about what he’s unleashed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

In “Resident Evil,” Abrams’ Bryan spends much of his lonely mission muttering to himself in annoyance and sometimes victory, much like a gamer would.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Beavis and Butt-head might leave chaos and destruction in their muttering, giggling wake, but they rarely suffer lasting harm themselves.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Mrs. Caruthers by this time was just muttering to herself.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland